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Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus

Freedman of the two Marcus and 'magister of the first year'.

  • Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol

    Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol
    EDCS 

  • Altar of Mnester and Philetus, front

    Altar of Mnester and Philetus, front
    EDCS 

Biography
of Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus

  • Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus was a syndexios.
  • Active c. 2nd – 3rd century in Roma, Latium (Italia).

TNMP 95

The freedman Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus is known from three inscriptions engraved on small marble altars unearthed in the 16th century in Rome, not far from Santa Maria in Monticelli. In these three dedications, he is described as magister of the first year, a title that seems to designate him as the trainer of new entrants to the Mithraic community (such as the slaves Fructus and his son Myro?), whose instruction he would have been responsible for for a year, with the help of assistants, one of whom bears the same praenomen and the same gentilice as he.

—Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain (2021)

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Mentions

Altar of Aemilius Chrysanthus to the Invincible Sol

TNMM 479

Aemilius Chrysanthus shares the expenses of this monument with a decurio named Limbricius Polides.

Soli / invicto / M. Aemilius / M(arcorum duorum) l(ibertus) Chrysanthus / mag(ister) anni primi et / M. Limbricius Polides / dec(urio) et sodalicio eius / d(e) (suo) d(onum) d(ederunt).
To Sol invincible, Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus, freedman of the two Marcus, master of the first year and Marcus Limbricius Polides, decurion and member of his college, at their own expense, offered a gift.

Altar of Fructus and Myro

TNMM 463

This marble monument was dedicated in Rome by the slave Fructus and his son Myro.

Orienti / Fructus Ponti (servus) / cum Myrone [f(ilio)] / sub M. Aemilio / Chrysantho / mag(istro) anni primi.
In the East, Fructus, slave of Pontus, with [his] son Myro, under the orders of Marcus Aemilius Chrysanthus, master (magister) of the first year.

Altar of Lucretius Mnester and Aemilius Philetus

TNMM 785

This marble altar was found ’in the street called di Branco’, behind the palace of the Cardinal of Bologna, in Rome.

Deo / invicto / Mithrae / C(aius) Lucretius Mnester / M(arcus) Aemilius Philetus / summag(istri) anni primi / M(arcus) Aemili Chrysanti / d(e) s(uo) d(onum) d(ederunt).
To the God Invincible Mithras, Gaius Lucretius Mnester and Marcus Aemilius Philetus, as the chief priests in the first year of Marcus Aemilius Chrysantus, gave [this] gift from their own expense.

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